SketchUp is 3D modeling software for professionals. SketchUp is easy and intuitive, allowing anyone to model in 3D quickly and accurately. Using 3D models, designers can make more informed decisions, communicate project details, and share ideas with colleagues and customers to reach a common goal.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
How to create proxy grass in v-ray for sketchup
Thursday, May 26, 2016
How to use SubD sketchup extension for spline modeling
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
How to use sketchup for Oculus and Leap Modeling
Friday, March 25, 2016
Advanced sketchup tutorial for modeling terrain efficiently in Sketchup
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
How to create perfect interior lighting and rendering with v-ray sketchup
V-ray sketchup is very useful to simplify the task to light your scene. Lighting performs a crucial role in the rendering process.
It is suggested to complete all the modeling prior to render a scene as it will make process easy for rectifying the illumination. The number of objects, object location, material type, color and even size will all impact the illumination to some extent.
Monday, February 1, 2016
The 2nd edition of “Architectural Design With Sketchup” is published by Alex Schreyer
Monday, November 9, 2015
Some useful sketchup tips for advanced modeling with Sketchup 2015
Sunday, August 3, 2014
3D modeling with Sketchup make Trimble
Friday, March 21, 2014
Sefaira is organizing PER/FORM Live Design Competition for building designer
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
RoomSketcher – A useful online digital drawing tool for 3d modelers
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Make your own architecture with sketchup wikihouse
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Submit your sketchup tips/tricks and win $500
- First Place — $500 Amazon Gift Card
- Second Place — $250 Amazon Gift Card
- Third Place — $100 Amazon Gift Card
- All tips should be in English.
- Submitted documents should contain the format like .doc, .docx or .txt
- 3Dconnexion should posses the rights to all contest submissions and utilize this content or elements of it in any format. The sender can include their name as well as a link to their website with their submitted documents.
- All entries should reach by midnight ET on Friday, February 14th.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
SketchUp for Planners & architects - A 39 minutes introductory course with video
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Thea Render Plug-in for Sketchup
This plugin is developed by Tomasz Marek and connects Google’s SketchUp modeler with Thea Render as external rendering application.
The sketchup users can export sketchup models with the help of Thea Exporter. This plug facilitates users to apply Thea properties to the SU materials, scenes and components and render the model in Thea. The exported model is being saved in XML file and in an additional sub-folder containing associated files – textures, meshes and lights.
Thea Render is the first commercial solution with unified framework that includes both state-of-the-art biased and unbiased engines. All render engines employ the same materials and lights not including any hidden obstacle between using one or the other. There is no need to transfer materials or parameters from an unbiased renderer to a biased one (and vice versa).
The sketchup users can render high quality biased animations quickly. They can also render amazingly realistic unbiased animations and quick high quality stills.
Features:-
- Hybrid Engine (Biased+Unbiased
- Breakthrough Material System
- Accurate Light Simulation
- Physically-based Rendering
- Superb Performance
- Standalone Studio
- Product Visualization
- Instant Unbiased Relight
- Image-based Lighting
- Displacement Mapping
- Motion Blur
- Depth of Field
- Sub-Surface Scattering
An introductory tutorial on SketchUp plugin for Thea Render
http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/tutorials.html
User Manual
http://www.thearender.com/plugins/sketchup/SU2TH-UsersManual.pdf/
Downloadable link
http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/downloads/thea-render.html
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
GeoSketch Parametric Rooftop Tools for sketchup

Cogent3D, Inc recently announced the availability of two unique products for Google SketchUp which include a FREE parametric generation Rooftop plug-in with plane cut tool and a 3D photo modeler TacForge™ GeoSketch™ Version 2.2.
GeoSketch Version 2.2 would bring some exclusive advantages for sketchup users :-
Now sketchup users can create 3D models with Video/Oblique imagery/Handheld and Cell Phone Imagery/Satellite Imagery/Imagery with and without camera models.
Ability to create hip, pitched, and other roof types with overhangs and the base building structure.
Instantly create 3D models alongwith parallel slicing, clipped surface cutting, and much more.
The sketchup users can enhance the modeling process with the help of a custom inference engine to Sketchup
A number of a CAD and Open Format support to export the 3-D models built inside Google SketchUp.
The sketchup users will be able to write OpenFlight compliant 3-D models directly without performing a conversion process with another tool. OpenFlight can include SMC/FID and multiple LODS.
Now the sketchup users can directly publish to the internal format of Microsoft Flight Simulator and LMCO Prepar3D for flight game and serious gaming applications.
The sketchup users will get the ability to export correlated Google Earth KML Collada 3-D, Gaming, and OpenFlight directly from Google SketchUp to ensure 3-D model correlation between all their applications.
Downloadable link
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Leading Builder, Turner Construction, utilize Sketchup 3D modeling software in their project
Sketch up is being utilized as a part of standard "digital toolbox" to offer Building Information Modeling (BIM) associated services on projects across the United States and around the world.
As for instance, On site BIM project team of Turner apply Sketch up for World Trade Center site in New York City, to present daily rapid 3D studies for project stakeholders. Sketch up models are used to give information throughout the decision making process and support the overall management and control of the construction activities at the site.
Friday, March 4, 2011
IMSI/Design releases new Renditioner Pro v2
IMSI/Design, the pioneer company in selling award winning cad software, just launches Renditioner Pro v2. It is an updated rendering and lighting control plug-in for Google™ SketchUp™ and SketchUp Pro. The new version has been totally revised and based on the same principles as IDX Renditioner.
Renditioner Pro v2 contains some high standard features. SketchUp model can be loaded mechanically into the Renditioner Pro program and the sketchup users will be able to arrange the model for rendering with spontaneous drag and drop, lighting, material, camera and environment controls.
Renditioner Pro v2 supports Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is well-matched with SketchUp and SketchUp Pro v7 and v8. A Macintosh version is expected to come soon in April. Price is US $199.99 and is downloadable from the IMSI website at http://www.imsidesign.com/.
The new version contains some advanced features which are given below:-
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Business Development
Sketchup4architect
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
With the innovation of 3D mice 3Dconnexion now support Sketchup 8
The sketchup users will be in a position to keep a superior control over their designs and workspace while modeling any kind of objects, creating a shadow study or photo-modeling existing models, creating, editing or validating multiple shapes. Their productivity will also be increased.
The sketchup users will get more flexibility to concurrently pan, zoom and rotate objects with the help of 3D mice.
The 3D mice contains patented six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) sensor that can easily identify smallest input similar to micrometers of a sketch or complex 3D model.
With the smooth 3D navigation feature of 3D mice the SketchUp users will get the ability to select a new center of rotation point for an individual design task
The complete 3Dconnexion product line is well-matched with SketchUp 8, as well as the Professional Series with the SpacePilot PRO (MSRP $399) and SpaceExplorer™ (MSRP $299), and the Standard Series with the SpaceNavigator (MSRP $99) and SpaceNavigator for Notebooks (MSRP $129).
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Sketchup4architect
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
SketchUp, an Innovative Tool for Home Designing
With the help of SketchUp you can draw the complex floor plan of your house in a simple way. With the three axes you can easily draw the lines with the pencil tool. There are many tools like Arc tool, Freehand Tool, Rectangle tool, Circle Tool and Polygon Tool to give you the flexibility to draw as you like. Then the Push or Pull tool helps you to make the design in to 3D. You can add colors, texture material according to your choice from the Paint Bucket Tool. You can do any modification with the help of the Eraser Tool. The Move Tool, Rotate Tool, Scale Tool Follow Me Tool and Offset tool will help you to modify the existing geometry of the image.
You can experience the model of you house will look at different times of day and night. Landscape of your house can be added in SketchUp. From the 3D Warehouse you can add different types of components like tree, shrubs, indoor plants, car, building, people and many more things. All these things will help you to give a real time feel on your 3D designing. It will help to have you a better understanding of the floor plan of your dream home. SketchUp also allows you to have last minute change in an inexpensive way and see the model in ‘what if’ condition.
SketchUp is also a great option for redesign your existing home. You can change the color of your rooms and rearrange the furniture to give a new look. You can also add new furniture or components like show pieces, table lamp, sofa, electronic gadgets or indoor plants. You can also change the carpet of your room. Furniture is also created with it. You can make 3D designing of various new furniture unlashing your creativity. You can find help in www.sketchup4architect.com which is a wonderful website providing tutorials, components and many other important requirements for 3D designing.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Sketchup4architect is a storehouse of Sketchup services
Sketchup is a wonderful tool for 3D designing. It is much faster and accurate than any other 3D designing tools available in the market. This magic tool from the house of Google helps the architects, designer, educators, game designer, film designer, graphic are designer, interior designer. Any general people can use this user friendly designing tool. This is success used by the school students for their project. Even the people with autism disorder can make beautiful model with the help of Sketchup. 3 dimensional model of any object like building, people, tree, car or any thing can be created promptly. Photo realistic rendering is also done with Sketchup to get a more real time look of the design. One can add texture, experience first person view via ‘walk through’, rotate the structure and can see it from every angle to get a better understanding.
Sketchup 4 Architect is doing an excellent job in providing the Sketchup service to the Architect Firm, Landscape Architect, Interior Designer, Graphic Designer, Real Estate Agency, Engineering Company, Game Industry, Film Industry, Woodworking Industry, Mechanical Industry and many other sectors. They are providing Sketchup services like: 3D Modeling, Architectural design, 3D Construction design, Interior design, Landscape Architecture, Film & Stage visualizing, GIS sketching, Mechanical Design, BIM Modeling with Google SketchUp and SketchUp for furniture design. Apart from these services you will find there lots of pre designed components like building, library, car, people, tree, door, windows, furniture and many more things by the Sketchup artist of the firm. Sketchup4architect is a treasure trove of the Sketchup plugins. One can download various Plug ins like SketchUcation Extensions Index, Lightup for Sketchup, Ies ve Sketchup Plugin, Turbosketch Studio, Indigo Renderer, Hypershot, Twilight Render, Shaderlight Plugin for SketchUp, 3D Paint Brush for Google Sketchup, Arc Gis, Podium, Vray, SU2KT, Artlantis for Sketchup, Edrawings Publisher, Google Sketchup Web Exporter Beta, Hypercosm Teleporter for Sketchup, Idx Renditioner, Urban Developer, 3skeng, Waybe, SketchyPhysics, Ifc2skp, Irender for Sketchup, Nxt render for Sketchup, Rps 3d pdf Exporter, RPS Productivity Tools, Render Plus System, Rp Tools, Space Design, Renderplus NPR Tools and many other.